Today, I have found a curious news: “Spain participates in an European Competition for “The tree of the year”, and I should like to share it with you. If you want to watch the video, which shows what and where the tree, selected in Spain, is, please do click on the link below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/agrosfera/primer-plano-arbol-del-ano/3021550/
At the beginning, you can read: headboard poplar. Aguilar del Alfambra. Teruel.
Voice in off: “Hold on to, in a corner of Teruel, where winters last nine months, wrinkles of this headboard poplar reveal an elderly, 250 years old”
Xabier de Jaime (Studies Centre of the Jiloca): “That a tree gets older ... it is complicated ..... Whether a tree gets older, in these moors, of Teruel, --where precipitations barely exceed 500 liters ... --, it is still heroic .. .”
Note: The Studies Centre of the Jiloca = Nonprofit association dedicated to the investigaciion, promotion and dissemination of culture, in its broadest sense, typical of the Valley of the Jiloca (Teruel. Northeast Spain).
Voice in off: “Chosen to represent Spain in a Contest, who does not seek beauty, find the most beloved tree --and it is, in Aguilar de la Alfambra, hold its houses, firewood with which heat them up—“.
Xabier de Jaime: “Under these beams, born most neighbors; ie, these are the trees, with which have been built houses, under those born neighbors”
A neighbor lady: “In this village, we like trees and we have lived in the warmth of their firewood, because, in that river, you have already seen that there are many”.
Voice in off: “25,000, which makes this site of Teruel, in the highest concentration of these trees, in Europe; Very few, in the old continent. It is not the highest –even though it rises 24 meters-- and winter undresses it; it is not its best side. They measure its waist”.
A young woman from The Studies Centre of the Jiloca: “4,60 meters”
Voice in off: “Europe has come to look at it..... McBride, from the organization, knows it very well…….He (McBride, a member of the Group Organizing of the Competition) says that it is an example of the ancient culture of this land, the culture of our grandparents, our parents; not grow judgment, in a moment of history; it is the history of this land”
Silvia Barraca (Editorial office Aragon): “By the moment, it is the third, in this kind Eurovision of trees, from behind: symbols, like the great English Oak, where, they say that the selfsame Robin Hood hid, in this place. And another oak: that of Poland, which embodies the Polish identity, against the Nazi occupation”
Voice in off: “It sees spend time with barely trees, where only resists the headboard poplar. Now it is in a contest and vote for it is wanting it”.
…………music………………..
Voice in off: “It is a vote to survival, in a place where many left, which still need the few, who remained at its side”.
……….music…………………..
Well, as I said, at the beginning, I think it is a very curious news. And I am glad, knowing that Spain is represented with a tree, in Europe. I hope that you have liked it too.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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